Founder Stories

Episodi

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  Episode 02 - Rawan Darweesh Fallata of BidBid 02.08.2026 50min

  Founder Stories sits down with Rawan Darweesh Fallata, Co-Founder of BidBid and a transformation leader with 18+ years inside some of the Gulf's biggest institutions — banks and hospitals — quietly rebuilding how they serve people. Then she did what most operators only talk about: she left to build her own.We get into what "transformation" actually means when you walk into a broken organization, the most stubborn process she ever fixed, and the leap into BidBid — what's genuinely broken in how companies run auctions and bidding, and how she's fixing it. Plus what it's like founding as a Saudi woman in the GCC right now. Keep building.
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  Episode 01 - Christine Karan of Code 30 Strategies 16.07.2026 53min

  For the very first episode of Founder Stories, the Tech Oman podcast, we sit down with Christine Karan — founder of Code 30 Strategies and one of the most forward-thinking voices in Oman's AI and marketing scene.Christine's path is anything but linear: from studying banking and finance in the UK, to training at Harvard in disruptive strategy, to becoming an IBM-certified AI prompt engineer. In 2020, as the world was shutting down, she launched Code 30 Strategies — a consultancy that helps organisations of every stripe, from hospitals to pizza chains, work out how AI actually fits into their growth plan. She went on to create Oman's first-ever AI in Marketing Conference, pulling 200+ marketing professionals into a room for something that had never been done before.In this conversation, Christine talks through her origin story, winning that first client, context-switching between a pizza campaign and a hospital AI strategy, the lessons they don't teach at Harvard, and her honest take on what's overhyped and underhyped in AI. And yes — half-marathons, chess, and Korean. Keep building!